Keg, barrel, and the like



' May 22, 1 92s. 1,670,977

G. E. MlTTlNGER KEG, BARREL, AND THE LIKE Filed July 15, 1925 Patented May 22, 1928.

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shone?" Etienne MITTINGER, or mvmaan, *omo.

KEG, BARREL, AND THE LIKE.

. Application filed July 15, 1925. Serial No. 43,809.

, metallic head, and in the woodenstaves of,

which thereceptacle is composed. e

The present invention is to supply areceptacle particularly intended as a shipping receptacle for bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, etc,

thus making its contents ofheavy material which necessarily can not be tightly packed,-.

and thus in-handling has .some movement which brings the whole weight of its contents or bulk at times on the head. 1

In handling a shipping package it is sometimes dropped from aplatform or less height, and is at times exceedingly roughlyhandled, which shifts the entire bulkofits contents upon one end of the receptacle, it is necessarythat the construction besuch that the staves will not break or theicover be knocked loose thus spilling its contents;

Therefore the primary object, of the present. invention ,is to so construct the staves and the head as to give a maximum strength to each of them, whereby when the same isdropped as aforesaid, neither the staves nor its cover will beeither broken or knocked loose, which is liable to happen when the receptacle falls in certainpositions.

Heretofore'wooden receptacles for con-J taming the materials herein mentioned. have almost universally been provided with wooden heads, wh ch when dropped has been found in practice to break thehead loose, or to break the staves of the. body of the.

receptacle thusspilling its contents. I, I am aware that itis not new to provide a metallic head for a wooden body portion,

but so far as I am aware the only practical form of such constructions is that illustrated in my Patent a l- 1,517,087 dated November;

25, 1924, which is a construction that is well adapted to be applied to a wooden body portion having the usual croze located at the inner side of its end, the said head being shaped to receive the ordinary shaped ends of the receptacle. This present invention is an improvement upon that patent as will be,

' line 2=2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken through, a part of the improved metallic head I shown in Figure 1 the section being taken centrally through the securing means.

F1gure 4 is a vertical sectional view of the head of the receptacle with my im provement applied thereto, showing the method of detaching the metallic head from the body portion.

Figure 5 is a view showing the constructionofmeans for applying the head to the end of the body of the receptacle. 7 r I Referring now to the drawings, 1 is the body of the receptacle that is composed of wooden staves 2. These staves are preferablyshaped to give a bilge to the receptacle, and 3 is the metallic head that is applied to the ends of the staves 2. i j

In my improvement the staves whichform the receptacle are not provided with the usual croze, nor are-the ends of the staves of the usual construction, for instance shown in my aforesaid patent. Therefore the staves are of thesame cross sectional thickness throughout their length, and they are therefore not weakened bya continuous annular croze as in my before mentioned patent. a

In this improvement the said head is U- shapedin cross section as shown and its walls 4 and 5-are so shaped that it receives the said walledendsof the staves, thus providing 1 a stave which isnot weakened, as aforesaid,

by the annular croze at its inner side, nor

is the end .of the stave weakened by reason of having the mnerfsid'e tapered outwardly from theupperedge of the eroze to its end,

as in my before mentioned patent. Therefore the metallic head has its inner and outer wallsZ-B and isubstantially parallel, whereas theinner wall as shown in my said patent istapered upwardly and outwardly.

The .rnetallichead 3 in my present cone struetioii has its inner wall perfectly plain when it is' applied to the end of the receptacle, and is made of a sufficient depth and of a shape to receive the extremities of the staves the ends of which are of uniform thickness with the balance of the stave. This metallic head being forced downward tightly on the ends of the stave, the staves are therefore uniformly clamped by the metallic head.

The head being in position on the staves it is necessary to secure it there and in the present improvement I accomplish this by piercing outwardlythe inner flange 5 as at 6 which forces flanges 7 on the said openings into the body of the staves. It is well konwn that to pierce metal in this manner causes it to fray as shown in Figure 2, and the frayed portion is in some instances partially turned laterally, though this is not essential in the present case. These piercings 6 are of a suitable number around the inner flange 5 of the cover, there being a sufiici'ent number to have them engage at least each stave, and preferably at least two of them pass into each stave as shown. However, it will be understood that the number of these punches depends upon the strength which it is desired to give the receptacle. It is found in practice that by having at least two enter each stave that the keg will stand being dropped from platforms and stand the extreme rough use to which they are subjected in shipping with- .out breaking the ends of the staves, or breaking the head loose.

Preferablythese openings 6 are placed sufficiently low in the flange 5 to engage the stave a sufficient distance below its end to insure'its permanent attachment to the receptacle.

In applying these improved heads, I utilize a tool constructed somewhat on the principle of my Patent N 0. 1,519,871 dated December 16, 1924, and reshape the outer edge ofthe dies 9 by providing the edge of the dies with a plurality of lateral projections 10, whereby when the dies are forced downward all of the punches are simultaneously made in the inner flange 5 of the head 3.

In addition to the additional strength of the staves, is the fact that the additional step in reshaping the ends of the staves is omitted.

thus reducing the cost of the container, and it requires much less strength or power to make the series of punched openings than it does to expand outwardly the whole inner edge of the cover as in my Patent No. 1,517;-

087. Therefore it is much easier to apply this improved head than it is to apply the head shown in mylast mentioned patent.

The metallic head having been thus applied to the receptacle or container, it is essential to provide means for detaching it to permit access to its contents. Accordingly this is accomplished by hammering the horizontal portion 11 of the head substantially .It is of course just as essential to be able to remove the head as itis to so construct ll) shapedwith a croze as before mentioned, and y the head is much easier attached to the receptacle than where a croze is used and the inner edge of the head provided with an outwardly extending portion fitting in the croze.

I desire it to be understood that the con struction of the present improvement may be varied without departing from. the invention so long as it is within a fair scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patout is An easily attachable and detachable head for a wooden keg having its staves untapered, comprising a wooden body portion composed of staves without tapered ends in combination with a head having a horizontal portion and extending outwardly from its horizontal portion, a U-shaped portion, the U being of such size as to freely slip on the ends of the staves'with its inner vertical wall in contact with the inner wall of the staves and its outer vertical wall outside of the said staves, and its inner vertical wall punched horizontally outward into the untapered ends of the staves GEORGE EUGENE MITTINGER. 

